No, it was Metroid with all the thinking removed and more eye candy and button mashing. You didn't have to know how to get from one place to another; you just follow the linear level, or take the level select screen. You didn't have to utilize bombs or freeze beams to navigate; just run and jump. Blast the shit out of boss enemies. It had shiny graphics, decent music, and continues to illicit nostalgia that draws endearment from old fans; it's still effectively simple concept shovelware that became popular, like fighting games and racing games.
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RAM usage doesn't come from big libraries. It comes from massive data sets being used to instantiate a whole bunch of shit. Libraries, even big ones, are small.
To be fair, yeah, basically IV's fluffy marketing has a point. They're assholes, but they provide the service to the tech industry that they claim: the industry invents, patents, then sells their patents and gets to capitalize on the invention without the logistics of capitalizing on the invention. They lose their defense, though--they can't cross-license with these patents anymore.
Really though think about it. You have either companies A and B trying to crush each other and all other competition with their patent portfolios, stalemating each other but keeping all small entrants out of the market; or you have companies A and B selling to company C, who uses Company B's patents to bleed money out of A and company A's patents to bleed money out of B (each sells with provision of having a license to their own technology), and also crushes all small entrants. Same shit, different day.
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For everyone else: Qt is a library/framework for developing really shiny themes that impress people enough for them to surmise it's better than GTK+.
Fixed. Qt has more shiny themes than GTK+, hence thousands of non-programmers continue to talk about how superior it is to GTK+. (Well, it's superior in its ability to increase program load times and consume a lot more RAM, I guess...).
You're as ridiculous as subby. Putting Legend of Zelda in there with Super Mario and Megaman? Those weren't anywhere near "every bit as good" as The Legend of Zelda--just possibly as popular. The Legend of Zelda was epic--that's a word, it has meaning. You had a whole world to explore, you had a storyline (weakly implemented), you had tasks that had to be completed, exploration, character growth. Metroid, yeah. Megaman you just blatantly raced through a side scroller, shooting things until you got to a boss, whose weapon you could use to no important effect until the end of the game anyway (i.e. complete in any order). Mario was even weaker--fixed mechanics, variation entirely level-based.
Well, their agreement doesn't magically give them the legal authority to take your photos from other places when you haven't even signed up for their service.
Doesn't matter, they're delinquent. If this is going to be a problem, you don't need their money. If they come back like "Oh we owe you $45k but we need more work done we'll get around to paying you" it's time to call their tab because fuck that noise.
Hey, you don't pay for the service. Now you're bartering with your pictures. How about this: you pay a fee to use instagram.
Web sites have revenue-generating bullshit because people won't pay an individual toll to drive down each individual road. Why don't you have a paid Google account, paid Facebook, paid Twitter, paid WSJ, paid NYT, paid Yahoo, paid Failblog, paid Wikipedia, and paid Epicurious account?
Who cares about burning bridges? You don't want to waste your resources on these expensive gits if they're going to dick around like this. Get your money and withhold future deliverables if they have outstanding invoices.
Mostly Wayland is an inefficient, ineffective attempt to get away from "old" stuff like X onto "modern" stuff like Windows. In the end it won't work any better; if it turns out even worse than X (probably will turn out less featureful but not actually slower; you never know how APIs will turn out, and I could see some level of eclecticism churning out something that's even harder to code for), people (Ubuntu) will push it and claim bullet-point technical superiority while avoiding real-world failings.
Dunno, I like Gnome 3 and Windows irritates me for being so terrible and lacking the "Activities" view. Don't like Gnome 3's alt-tab behavior though, wish it was per-window instead of per-application.
Yes but that's the point. Responsible gun ownership is possible; but more to the point, bland criminals here aren't the ones shooting people. We have sociopathic killers and we have people who think they're awesome TV star gangsters just like 50 pence and Cool Whip or whatever rappers they have on TV now. 5 year old children idolize Scarrface 'cause it's awesome he shoots people he doesn't like in the face. That's what they all wanna be. I've seen 8 year olds sell drugs and shout loudly at people that they shouldn't fuck with them 'cause they got a gun and will cap them or something.
You can form a gun with a drill press, a coffee can, some nails as material steel, and a CNC lathe. Maybe some files. To cast parts you can use sand with bentonite clay. The skills aren't hard to learn, and if you can't buy guns anymore then a criminal empire to make and sell guns would be lucrative.
Criminals have a lot of skills most people don't possess. Like the ability to run and hide and be stealthy. Most people have "run away" down, but they're easy to chase down, they can't hide worth shit, and they're loud and clumsy. Criminals are, somehow, like ninja. How the hell do you break into someone's house without the police showing up immediately?
I'm certain I could use a sword to take down dozens of people in a school in seconds. I've slipped into high schools when the crowds were dense--dense enough that a home made explosive from a half a pint of diesel fuel and some nitrogen fertilizer would give a death toll around 50 or so if lobbed into the crowd. Go in from a side entrance near the end of the day, when classes are getting out, the halls are crowded. Get a bit past the door, maybe two classrooms deep, then bring the sword out from under your loose shirt and start beheading people. You can take a dozen heads off in two or three seconds at that density (hell, take the Columbine angle and pretend video games made you do it--start doing a spin cut like in Legend of Zelda, use your body mass to propel the blade and push it further and further out to slice deeper and deeper into the bodies around you, until you've lopped everyone within a 3 foot radius in half).
The halls are congested, get moving and start cutting heads. Even if someone had a gun, they'd have to get through the crowd, or just accept that a few kids are gonna take bullets and start unloading in your direction.
The answer to that is that you can control guns. A bullet goes where you put it, and strikes and damages something. Mostly. If you've kept in practice, usually. Grenades are ridiculously hard to control, have splash damage, and throw shrapnel. Always.
Dude, pipebombs would be fucking piss excellence! I mean with a gun you have a tiny little bullet that doesn't do much damage, might hit one person, if you miss you suck. But pipebombs? You can carry loads of ammo on you, but maybe 20 pipebombs. Add a small electronic cap switch to turn on a remote detonator instead of/along with a piece of 10 second fuse, and you can just toss them at someone and if you miss just detonate while it's right by their head. If you fire 5 bullets into a crowd, you'll probably injure 5 people, maybe kill a few, possibly less because one body in the way can take all your shots--bullets may pass through, with much less kinetic energy, but they could stop. Pipebomb? Throw it at the densest concentration of people, just one, and KABLAMMMMM! Shit you wouldn't even need 20. Give it half a dozen and you could fuck some shit up, especially if you wing one through a classroom door at head level while running by, then swiftly remote-detonate instead of using a fuse.
The problem is I can produce a repeating semi-automatic firearm with a home chemistry set, a propane tank, a box of screws, and a drill press. It takes a couple hours. Rolling cartridges isn't hard, so loading up my home made nine shooter isn't a problem. Can even pop and drop the chamber so I can keep a second one already loaded up (18 shots), like an extra clip. Home-built magazine-fed bolt-action firearms are rudimentary; home-built fully-automatic repeating firearms are easy enough for someone mildly skilled who does his research.
The double-action revolver is easiest because the only complicated part is the double-action trigger really (the part that lets you pull the trigger to fire without cocking the hammer first, so you can just go bang-bang-bang). That makes it semi-automatic technically because you don't have to manually cock or load the weapon between shots: slap in 9 bullets and fire-fire-fire-fire. Likewise bolt action, slap in a clip and fire, cock, fire, cock, fire, cock. Single shot is fire, load, cock, fire, load, cock, keep putting those bullets in.
If guns were no longer sold, rudimentary gunsmithing on common tools would become common. Anyone who owned a CNC lathe could do it way easily. Anyone who owned a drill press and could get a Folgers coffee can could pull it off (melt down some nails to form the steel you want to use for the body). A black market for the less skilled or for better guns would pop up, run by people you don't fuck with because they have guns. Fully automatic repeating firearms would be pretty common because, hell, why not? Most guns today are legal--real, official handguns made by Beretta or Glock or Ruger, stolen or purchased illicitly or purchased legally by morons. A criminal empire manufacturing all the guns criminals use? Are you kidding? Why would you NOT sell tons of fully-auto weapons?
The UK is a very poor example. It' "proves that gun bans work," but in reality it doesn't. The US has always had a strong affinity for firearms, whereas it's never been a really big thing in the UK--this country was founded on national defense via armed citizens, was raised on armed citizens defending themselves with their guns, and has only recently enjoyed an upsurging of self-important socialist liberals trying to ban guns while self-important fascist conservatives demand we arm everyone to the teeth.
UK criminals were never really as big on guns as US criminals are now. US criminals all either don't carry guns or they shoot people just because. Guns are like toys or like life. Killing people is routine. In Britain it's always been more of a thing to go for burglary, Even if they have guns they don't usually shoot people. Knife and fist crimes are proportionately more common in UK than in the US, although in both they're more common than gun crimes.
The culture in the US is that guns are awesome and shooting people is awesome.
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No, it was Metroid with all the thinking removed and more eye candy and button mashing. You didn't have to know how to get from one place to another; you just follow the linear level, or take the level select screen. You didn't have to utilize bombs or freeze beams to navigate; just run and jump. Blast the shit out of boss enemies. It had shiny graphics, decent music, and continues to illicit nostalgia that draws endearment from old fans; it's still effectively simple concept shovelware that became popular, like fighting games and racing games.
RAM usage doesn't come from big libraries. It comes from massive data sets being used to instantiate a whole bunch of shit. Libraries, even big ones, are small.
To be fair, yeah, basically IV's fluffy marketing has a point. They're assholes, but they provide the service to the tech industry that they claim: the industry invents, patents, then sells their patents and gets to capitalize on the invention without the logistics of capitalizing on the invention. They lose their defense, though--they can't cross-license with these patents anymore.
Really though think about it. You have either companies A and B trying to crush each other and all other competition with their patent portfolios, stalemating each other but keeping all small entrants out of the market; or you have companies A and B selling to company C, who uses Company B's patents to bleed money out of A and company A's patents to bleed money out of B (each sells with provision of having a license to their own technology), and also crushes all small entrants. Same shit, different day.
For everyone else: Qt is a library/framework for developing really shiny themes that impress people enough for them to surmise it's better than GTK+.
Fixed. Qt has more shiny themes than GTK+, hence thousands of non-programmers continue to talk about how superior it is to GTK+. (Well, it's superior in its ability to increase program load times and consume a lot more RAM, I guess...).
You're as ridiculous as subby. Putting Legend of Zelda in there with Super Mario and Megaman? Those weren't anywhere near "every bit as good" as The Legend of Zelda--just possibly as popular. The Legend of Zelda was epic--that's a word, it has meaning. You had a whole world to explore, you had a storyline (weakly implemented), you had tasks that had to be completed, exploration, character growth. Metroid, yeah. Megaman you just blatantly raced through a side scroller, shooting things until you got to a boss, whose weapon you could use to no important effect until the end of the game anyway (i.e. complete in any order). Mario was even weaker--fixed mechanics, variation entirely level-based.
Well, their agreement doesn't magically give them the legal authority to take your photos from other places when you haven't even signed up for their service.
Doesn't matter, they're delinquent. If this is going to be a problem, you don't need their money. If they come back like "Oh we owe you $45k but we need more work done we'll get around to paying you" it's time to call their tab because fuck that noise.
Hey, you don't pay for the service. Now you're bartering with your pictures. How about this: you pay a fee to use instagram.
Web sites have revenue-generating bullshit because people won't pay an individual toll to drive down each individual road. Why don't you have a paid Google account, paid Facebook, paid Twitter, paid WSJ, paid NYT, paid Yahoo, paid Failblog, paid Wikipedia, and paid Epicurious account?
Why not demand, because they've been terrible at paying you, that payment be sent to escrow up front? Or make them pay the Obligators at least.
That or she gives fantastic head.
Who cares about burning bridges? You don't want to waste your resources on these expensive gits if they're going to dick around like this. Get your money and withhold future deliverables if they have outstanding invoices.
Mostly Wayland is an inefficient, ineffective attempt to get away from "old" stuff like X onto "modern" stuff like Windows. In the end it won't work any better; if it turns out even worse than X (probably will turn out less featureful but not actually slower; you never know how APIs will turn out, and I could see some level of eclecticism churning out something that's even harder to code for), people (Ubuntu) will push it and claim bullet-point technical superiority while avoiding real-world failings.
Dunno, I like Gnome 3 and Windows irritates me for being so terrible and lacking the "Activities" view. Don't like Gnome 3's alt-tab behavior though, wish it was per-window instead of per-application.
Yes but that's the point. Responsible gun ownership is possible; but more to the point, bland criminals here aren't the ones shooting people. We have sociopathic killers and we have people who think they're awesome TV star gangsters just like 50 pence and Cool Whip or whatever rappers they have on TV now. 5 year old children idolize Scarrface 'cause it's awesome he shoots people he doesn't like in the face. That's what they all wanna be. I've seen 8 year olds sell drugs and shout loudly at people that they shouldn't fuck with them 'cause they got a gun and will cap them or something.
To be awesome, shoot people.
You can form a gun with a drill press, a coffee can, some nails as material steel, and a CNC lathe. Maybe some files. To cast parts you can use sand with bentonite clay. The skills aren't hard to learn, and if you can't buy guns anymore then a criminal empire to make and sell guns would be lucrative.
Criminals have a lot of skills most people don't possess. Like the ability to run and hide and be stealthy. Most people have "run away" down, but they're easy to chase down, they can't hide worth shit, and they're loud and clumsy. Criminals are, somehow, like ninja. How the hell do you break into someone's house without the police showing up immediately?
Norway isn't run by a criminal government and full of criminals in criminal cities infested with criminal organizations.
Guns elevate the power of the powerless. A 90lb 5ft tall college girl isn't going to be able to fight off a gangrape with her strength alone,
Uh. Koreans? 12 year olds? Shit that's been in the news recently where tiny, tiny girls have been kicking huge guys' asses?
I'm certain I could use a sword to take down dozens of people in a school in seconds. I've slipped into high schools when the crowds were dense--dense enough that a home made explosive from a half a pint of diesel fuel and some nitrogen fertilizer would give a death toll around 50 or so if lobbed into the crowd. Go in from a side entrance near the end of the day, when classes are getting out, the halls are crowded. Get a bit past the door, maybe two classrooms deep, then bring the sword out from under your loose shirt and start beheading people. You can take a dozen heads off in two or three seconds at that density (hell, take the Columbine angle and pretend video games made you do it--start doing a spin cut like in Legend of Zelda, use your body mass to propel the blade and push it further and further out to slice deeper and deeper into the bodies around you, until you've lopped everyone within a 3 foot radius in half).
The halls are congested, get moving and start cutting heads. Even if someone had a gun, they'd have to get through the crowd, or just accept that a few kids are gonna take bullets and start unloading in your direction.
Why don't we concentrate on a culture shift? Besides that it would affect the political atmosphere and possibly unseat certain political interests?
The answer to that is that you can control guns. A bullet goes where you put it, and strikes and damages something. Mostly. If you've kept in practice, usually. Grenades are ridiculously hard to control, have splash damage, and throw shrapnel. Always.
Dude, pipebombs would be fucking piss excellence! I mean with a gun you have a tiny little bullet that doesn't do much damage, might hit one person, if you miss you suck. But pipebombs? You can carry loads of ammo on you, but maybe 20 pipebombs. Add a small electronic cap switch to turn on a remote detonator instead of/along with a piece of 10 second fuse, and you can just toss them at someone and if you miss just detonate while it's right by their head. If you fire 5 bullets into a crowd, you'll probably injure 5 people, maybe kill a few, possibly less because one body in the way can take all your shots--bullets may pass through, with much less kinetic energy, but they could stop. Pipebomb? Throw it at the densest concentration of people, just one, and KABLAMMMMM! Shit you wouldn't even need 20. Give it half a dozen and you could fuck some shit up, especially if you wing one through a classroom door at head level while running by, then swiftly remote-detonate instead of using a fuse.
Let's be glad these people have guns.
Hey man, how about lobbying for open carry of katana?
A car?
The problem is I can produce a repeating semi-automatic firearm with a home chemistry set, a propane tank, a box of screws, and a drill press. It takes a couple hours. Rolling cartridges isn't hard, so loading up my home made nine shooter isn't a problem. Can even pop and drop the chamber so I can keep a second one already loaded up (18 shots), like an extra clip. Home-built magazine-fed bolt-action firearms are rudimentary; home-built fully-automatic repeating firearms are easy enough for someone mildly skilled who does his research.
The double-action revolver is easiest because the only complicated part is the double-action trigger really (the part that lets you pull the trigger to fire without cocking the hammer first, so you can just go bang-bang-bang). That makes it semi-automatic technically because you don't have to manually cock or load the weapon between shots: slap in 9 bullets and fire-fire-fire-fire. Likewise bolt action, slap in a clip and fire, cock, fire, cock, fire, cock. Single shot is fire, load, cock, fire, load, cock, keep putting those bullets in.
If guns were no longer sold, rudimentary gunsmithing on common tools would become common. Anyone who owned a CNC lathe could do it way easily. Anyone who owned a drill press and could get a Folgers coffee can could pull it off (melt down some nails to form the steel you want to use for the body). A black market for the less skilled or for better guns would pop up, run by people you don't fuck with because they have guns. Fully automatic repeating firearms would be pretty common because, hell, why not? Most guns today are legal--real, official handguns made by Beretta or Glock or Ruger, stolen or purchased illicitly or purchased legally by morons. A criminal empire manufacturing all the guns criminals use? Are you kidding? Why would you NOT sell tons of fully-auto weapons?
The UK is a very poor example. It' "proves that gun bans work," but in reality it doesn't. The US has always had a strong affinity for firearms, whereas it's never been a really big thing in the UK--this country was founded on national defense via armed citizens, was raised on armed citizens defending themselves with their guns, and has only recently enjoyed an upsurging of self-important socialist liberals trying to ban guns while self-important fascist conservatives demand we arm everyone to the teeth.
UK criminals were never really as big on guns as US criminals are now. US criminals all either don't carry guns or they shoot people just because. Guns are like toys or like life. Killing people is routine. In Britain it's always been more of a thing to go for burglary, Even if they have guns they don't usually shoot people. Knife and fist crimes are proportionately more common in UK than in the US, although in both they're more common than gun crimes.
The culture in the US is that guns are awesome and shooting people is awesome.